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Texas A&M Aggies football
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The Texas A&M Aggies football program represents Texas A&M University in the sport of American football. The Aggies compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Texas A&M football claims three national titles and eighteen conference titles. The team plays all games at the newly redeveloped Kyle Field. Kevin Sumlin is currently the head coach. Texas A&M first fielded a team in 1894, under the direction of head coach F. D. Perkins. The team compiled a 1–1 record, W. A. Murray served as A&Ms head coach from 1899-1901, compiling a record of 7–8–1. From 1902-1904, J. E. Platt served as A&Ms head coach, from 1909-1914, A&M compiled a 38–8–4 record under head coach Charley Moran. Morans 1909 team finished undefeated, and all but one of Morans other seasons the Aggies only lost one each year. Under head coach Edwin Harlan, the Aggies compiled a record of 12–5 in two seasons and joined the Southwest Conference, Bible became Texas A&Ms head coach in 1919, leaving LSU, and under his tutelage the Aggies compiled a record of 72–19–9 in ten seasons. In the 1922 Dixie Classic, Bible made his most visible, Bible had a roster of only eighteen players, who had to play both offense and defense against the heavily favored Centre College. He lost three players to early in the game, but the Aggies took the lead. The Aggies wouldnt need Gills help to win, but since then A&M students stand throughout football games to show their willingness to play if needed, Bible departed the Aggies after the 1928 season to accept the Nebraska head coaching position. After Bibles departure, A&M brought in Matty Bell from TCU to lead the Aggies football program, under Bells tutelage, the Aggies compiled a record of 24–21–3. However, the Aggies did not play up to the set by Dana Bibles tenure. Homer Norton was hired away from Centenary to replace Bell in 1934, A&M enjoyed great successes under Norton. The 1939 Texas A&M team went 11–0, beating Tulane in the Sugar Bowl, nortons record at Texas A&M was 82–53–9, giving him the second most wins of any coach in Texas A&M Aggies football history. Among the many stars that Norton developed were John Kimbrough and Joe Routt, Norton was fired in 1947 when his team went 3–6–1 and lost to archrival Texas for the eighth straight year. In December 1947, Harry Stiteler was promoted from running backs coach to coach for the Texas A&M football team following the firing of Homer Norton

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Charley Moran
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After graduating, he became an assistant to Pop Warner at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Moran coached the University of Nashville football team in 1900 and 1901, the 1901 team was one of the Souths greatest. Moran played minor league baseball in 1902 for teams in Little Rock, Chattanooga, in 1903, Moran pitched for the National Leagues St. Louis Cardinals, who finished in last place, but he appeared in only three games before injuring his arm. He posted a 5.25 earned run average in his tenure of 24 innings, being charged with a loss without earning a win. He went back to the leagues to manage the Dallas Giants in 1904. He returned to the Cardinals as a catcher in 1908 and played in 21 games and his minor league career continued with teams in Milwaukee, Mobile, New Orleans, Dallas and Montgomery until he suffered a broken leg in 1912. He briefly played with teams in Chattanooga and Brunswick in 1913 before retiring as a player, after managing an Austin team in 1914, he began umpiring, in the Texas League in 1915–16 and the Southern Association in 1917. Moran began coaching football in 1909 at Texas A&M, where he accumulated a 38–8–4 record as coach over six seasons through 1914. This may be incorrect as he was elevated to head coach after the game of the 1909 season. He became a National League umpire in 1918, a job he held through the 1939 season and he officiated in four World Series, serving as crew chief on the last two occasions. He was behind the plate on May 8,1929 when Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants pitched an 11–0 no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Moran also resumed his career as a head coach in 1917 at Centre College. The first two games of the 1917 season were coached by Robert L, chief Myers, and the rest by Moran. According to Centre publications, Myers realized he was dealing with a group of exceptional athletes and he needed someone who could the team justice, and found that person in Charles Moran. His record including undefeated seasons in 1919 and 1921, when the team was led on the field by Hall of Fame quarterback Bo McMillin. On October 29,1921, Moran guided Centre College to a historic 6–0 upset of Harvard, the game, commonly appreviated C6-H0, was ranked the 3rd biggest upset in college football history by ESPN. During the 1921 season Moran began a friendship with future baseball commissioner Happy Chandler, Moran then moved to Bucknell University, where he had a 19–10–2 record from 1924 through 1926. He was co-coach with Ed Weir of the NFLs Frankford Yellow Jackets in 1927 and his final coaching job was at Catawba College from 1930 through 1933, where he had a 22–11–5 record

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1911 college football season
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The 1911 NCAA football season was the last one before major reforms were made to the American game in 1912. In 1911, touchdowns were worth five points, the field was 110 yards in length, although no team finished the season unbeaten and untied, the United States Naval Academy finished with a record of 6 wins and 3 ties. Two of the ties were 0-0 games with the other major teams, Penn State. Other teams that finished the season unbeaten were Minnesota and Florida, Vanderbilt beat visiting Centre College 45-0, in its first four games, Vandy had outscored its opposition 164-0. Carlisle beat Lafayette 19-0 At Philadelphia, Penn State beat Pennsylvania, army beat Lehigh 20-0 Georgetown beat St. Johns College of Maryland, 20-0. Princeton beat Holy Cross 20-0 Minnesota won at Iowa 24-6, Carlisle won its 8th game, 16-0 over Penn. Michigan and Syracuse played to a 6-6 tie, Georgia beat Clemson three days later at Augusta, 22-0 Florida beat visiting Columbia College 9-0 in a Friday game. Carlisle handed Harvard its second loss, winning 18-15 Navy beat West Virginia 32-0. Army was scored upon for the first time in six games, Chicago beat Cornell 6-0 Vanderbilt beat Ole Miss 21-0. Georgia beat Georgia Tech 5-0 Harvard beat Dartmouth 5-3, Minnesota beat Illinois 11-0 Chicago beat Wisconsin 5-0 Michigan and Nebraska 6-6 tie Carlisle won at Johns Hopkins, 29-6 Harvard and Yale played to 0-0 tie. Kansas travels to Missouri for a 3–3 tie in what is considered the first homecoming game. More than 1,000 people gathered in downtown Lawrence, Kansas, on Wednesday, November 29, in Savannah, Georgia and Auburn played to a 0-0 tie. Penn State won at Pittsburgh 3-0, to finish the season 8-0-1, Carlisle closed its season with a 12-6 win at Brown. The last five-point American football touchdown was scored on January 1,1912, in a game played in Havana, mississippi A&M College defeated the Club Atletico de Cuba, 12-0. The following is a incomplete list of conference standings, The consensus All-America team included, Rushing yards leader, Jim Thorpe, Carlisle,899 Rushing avg. leader

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Southwestern University
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Southwestern University is a private, four-year, undergraduate, liberal arts college located in Georgetown, Texas, United States. Formed in 1873 from a revival of collegiate charters granted in 1840, the school is affiliated with the United Methodist Church with a nonsectarian curriculum. Southwestern offers 40 bachelors degrees in the arts, sciences, fine arts, the university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the National Association of Schools of Music. In 2015, Southwestern celebrated its 175th Anniversary, the university is a member of the Annapolis Group, the Associated Colleges of the South, the Council of Independent Colleges, and is a signatory of the Talloires Declaration. In 1873, the union of four institutions opened in Georgetown as Texas University. The university considers its founding date to be 1840, when Rutersville College opened, Southwestern thus claims to be the oldest university in Texas and the second oldest coeducational liberal arts college west of the Mississippi. Southwestern was a member of the Southwest Conference in 1915. When SMUs student population became larger, students at Southwestern began considering Trinity University. Southwestern has a history of drawing prolific lecturers to campus, including William Jennings Bryan, Helen Keller, Bell hooks, orators traveling by train often stopped off on their way to or from Austin, giving their lectures and catching the next train. Speakers at the annual Brown Symposium have included author Isaac Asimov in the early 1980s, in 2002, The Writers Voice series presented Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon. The Writers Voice has also welcomed such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Amy Tan, in 1998, Southwestern faculty, students, alumni, staff and trustees identified the university’s core purpose and core values. The core purpose was identified as Fostering a liberal arts community whose values, a sixth core value, cultivating academic excellence, was added in 2008. This deal makes Southwestern the first university in Texas to get all its power from renewable sources, the university offers 40 majors and 36 minors divided between the Brown College of Arts and Sciences and the Sarofim School of Fine Arts. In addition to traditional majors, Southwestern offers interdisciplinary, independent, and paired majors as well as pre-professional programs in Engineering, Law, Medicine. In the 2013-2014 school year, total student enrollment was at 1,536, of the entering first-year students in Fall 2013,37 percent were in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class with an average SAT score of 1166. While the majority of students come from Texas, the remaining 11 percent come from 23 other states and 6 countries, minority students constitute 33 percent of the student body. The student to faculty ratio is 11,1, with a class size of 15 students. Ninety-nine percent of the tenured or tenure-track faculty hold doctorate or highest degree in their fields, collaborative research and publication with students is common

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College Station, Texas
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College Station is a city in Brazos County, Texas, situated in East-Central Texas in the heart of the Brazos Valley, in the center of the region known as Texas Triangle. It is 90 miles northwest of Houston and 87 miles northeast of Austin, as of the 2010 census, College Station had a population of 93,857, which had increased to an estimated population of 100,050 as of July 2013. College Station and Bryan together make up the Bryan-College Station metropolitan area, College Station is home to the main campus of Texas A&M University, the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The city owes both its name and existence to the location along a railroad. Due largely to the presence of Texas A&M University, College Station was named by Money magazine in 2006 as the most educated city in Texas, the origins of College Station date from 1860, when the Houston and Texas Central Railway began to build through the region. Eleven years later, the site was chosen as the location for the proposed Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, in 1876, as the nation celebrated its centennial, the school opened its doors as the first public institution of higher education in the state of Texas. The population of College Station grew slowly, reaching 350 in 1884 and 391 at the turn of the century, however, during this time, transportation improvements took place in the town. In 1900, the I&GN Railroad was extended to College Station, the interurban was replaced by a city bus system in the 1920s. In 1930, the community to the north of College Station, College Station did not incorporate until 1938 with John H. Binney as the first mayor. Within a year, the city established a commission, and by 1940. The city grew under the leadership of Ernest Langford, called by some the Father of College Station, early in his first term, the city adopted a council-manager system of city government. Population growth accelerated following World War II as the nonstudent population reached 7,898 in 1950,11,396 in 1960,17,676 in 1970,30,449 in 1980,52,456 in 1990, and 67,890 in 2000. The population for the Bryan-College Station metropolitan area range from an estimated 250,846 to 271,773 by 2030. College Station is located south of the center of Brazos County at 30°36′5″N 96°18′52″W and it is bordered by the city of Bryan to the northwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 49.6 sq mi, of which 49.4 sq mi is land and 0.19 sq mi. The local climate is subtropical and temperate and winters are mild with periods of low temperatures usually lasting less than two months, snow and ice are extremely rare. Summers are warm and hot with occasional showers being the only variation in weather. About 27. 1% of all households were made up of individuals, the average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.98

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Austin College
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Austin College is a private liberal arts college affiliated by covenant relationship with the Presbyterian Church and located in Sherman, Texas, about 60 miles north of Dallas. The undergraduate student body of Austin College is about 1,300, students are required to live on campus for the first three years of their education in order to foster a close-knit and community oriented campus lifestyle. Austin College actively promotes study abroad programs, 70% of graduates have at least one international study experience during college, the college cultivates close interaction between students and professors via a 12,1 student to faculty ratio and an average class size of fewer than 25 students. The college has no teaching assistants, so regular faculty teach all levels of coursework, the college was founded on October 13,1849, in Huntsville, Texas, by the Hampden–Sydney and Princeton-educated missionary Dr. Daniel Baker. Signed by Texas Governor George Wood, the charter of Austin College was modeled after those of Harvard, Yale, Baker named the school for the Texas historical figure Stephen F. Austin after the original land on which it was built was donated by the Austin family. Austin Colleges founding president was Irish-born Presbyterian minister Samuel McKinney, who served as the president a second time from 1862 to 1871. Under the tenure of the president of Austin College, Reverend Samuel Magoffin Luckett, Austin College suffered several yellow fever epidemics. Texas Synod of the Presbyterian Church decided the college would be relocated to Sherman in 1876, construction of the new campus in north Texas came in the form of Old Main, a two-story, red brick structure, which occurred between 1876 and 1878. Austin College saw little improvement to its building or grounds during the late 1870s, as such, a shrewd and well connected businessman, President MacGregor relieved a great deal of the colleges debt and returned operations to normalcy. After MacGregors death in 1887, the college welcomed President Luckett back to the campus, on January 21 of 1913, Old Main was set ablaze and burnt to the ground in a matter of hours. A professor of Austin College, Davis Foute Eagleton described the incident, Austin College on fire, - The dear old building in which I have laboured for twenty-four years, gone. What traditions, memories, griefs, joys, were associated with it, the carpenters were approaching the completion of their work. The new English room was completed, the room was soon to be ready. I lost all books, or, in my class room, the laboratories were almost a total loss. Fortunately, the library, records, and office furniture were all in the new Y. M. C. A, the Faculty also met shortly after and unanimously decided to continue college work the next day as usual, meeting their classes in places designated. Probably not another institution in the State could have done this, but the old College building is gone forever. Following the fire, the citizens of Sherman raised $50,000 to help the college rebuild, now one of the oldest buildings on the Austin College campus, Sherman Hall housed administrative offices, an auditorium-chapel, and a library. Now the home of the division, Sherman Hall boasted such guests as Harry Houdini, Harry Blackstone Sr. Madame Schumann-Heink, William Howard Taft

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Dallas
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Dallas is a major city in the U. S. state of Texas. It is the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the citys population ranks ninth in the U. S. and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. The citys prominence arose from its importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries. The bulk of the city is in Dallas County, of which it is the county seat, however, sections of the city are located in Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties. According to the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 1,197,816, the United States Census Bureaus estimate for the citys population increased to 1,300,092 as of July 1,2015. In 2016 DFW ascended to the one spot in the nation in year-over-year population growth. In 2014, the metropolitan economy surpassed Washington, D. C. to become the fifth largest in the U. S. with a 2014 real GDP over $504 billion, as such, the metropolitan areas economy is the 10th largest in the world. As of January 2017, the job count has increased to 3,558,200 jobs. The citys economy is based on banking, commerce, telecommunications, technology, energy, healthcare and medical research. The city is home to the third-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the nation. Located in North Texas, Dallas is the core of the largest metropolitan area in the South. Dallas and nearby Fort Worth were developed due to the construction of railroad lines through the area allowing access to cotton, cattle. Later, France also claimed the area but never established much settlement, the area remained under Spanish rule until 1821, when Mexico declared independence from Spain, and the area was considered part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. In 1836, the Republic of Texas, with majority Anglo-American settlers, in 1839, Warren Angus Ferris surveyed the area around present-day Dallas. John Neely Bryan established a permanent settlement near the Trinity River named Dallas in 1841, the origin of the name is uncertain. The Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845, Dallas was formally incorporated as a city on February 2,1856. With construction of railroads, Dallas became a business and trading center and it became an industrial city, attracting workers from Texas, the South and the Midwest. The Praetorian Building of 15 stories, built in 1909, was the first skyscraper west of the Mississippi and it marked the prominence of Dallas as a city

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Ole Miss Rebels football
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The Ole Miss Rebels football program represents the University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss. The Rebels compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the football history of Ole Miss includes the formation of the first football team in the state and the 26th team on the list of college footballs all-time winning programs. The Rebels posted their 600th win on September 27,2008 when they defeated the Florida Gators 31–30, throughout the 115-year history of Ole Miss football, the Rebels have won six Southeastern Conference titles and claim three national titles. The team is coached by Hugh Freeze. In 1890, Dr. A. L. Bondurant, later the dean of the Ole Miss Graduate School, rallied Ole Miss students to form an athletic department to encompass the sports of football, baseball. The students brought this initiative to reality and in 1893, with Bondurant as the coach, the first team won four of five games during that inaugural football season. One of those wins was the very first football game played by an Ole Miss team. This was on November 11,1893, the next year,1894, Bondurant passed on his coaching duties. Ole Miss Football, a book published in 1980 by Sports Yearbook Company of Oxford, MS, rhea was the first coach at Ole Miss having been hired part-time by Bondurant and having led the 1894 team to a 6–1 record. His name appears as manager of the team as shown in the Ole Miss Magazine dated November 1894, the College Football Data Warehouse also lists Clark as the coach for the 1894 team. Twice in its history, Ole Miss did not field a football team, in 1897, a yellow fever epidemic cancelled the football season. In 1943, football was abolished at all Mississippi state-supported institutions by the state college Board of Trustees due to World War II, nathan Stauffer served as the head coach for the 1909,1910 and 1911 seasons. His record at Ole Miss was 17 wins,7 losses and 2 ties, in February 1925, Homer Hazel signed to become the head football coach at Ole Miss. Hazel coached the team for five years, compiling records of 5–5 in 1925, 5–4 in 1926, 5–3–1 in 1927, 5–4 in 1928 and his five-year record as head football coach was 21–22–3. After the poor showing in 1929, the Ole Miss student body, Hazel resigned his post at Ole Miss in January 1930. Thad Vann, who played for Hazel at Ole Miss from 1926 to 1929, leading Ole Miss into the Southeastern Conference in 1933 was head coach Ed Walker, who served as the Rebels head coach from 1930 to 1937. The Rebels compiled a record of 38–38–8 record under Walker, which included a 9–3 campaign in 1935, under head coach Harry Mehre, who led the Rebels from 1938 to 1945, the Rebels compiled a record of 39–26–1, which included two 9–2 seasons in 1938 and 1940. In his first season at the helm in 1947, the Rebels posted a 9–2 record and that 1947 season also saw Ole Miss great Charlie Conerly become the first Rebel player to be a contender for the Heisman Trophy, placing fourth in the voting for the prestigious honor

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Texas Longhorns football
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The Texas Longhorns football program is the intercollegiate team representing the University of Texas at Austin in the sport of American football. The Longhorns compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Big 12 Conference, the team is coached by Tom Herman and home games are played at Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas. Beginning in 1893, the Texas Longhorns football program is one of the most highly regarded and historic programs of all time. From 1937 to 1946 the team was led by Hall of Fame coach Dana X. Bible, and then from 1957 to 1976 the team was led by Hall of Fame coach Darrell K. Royal, who won three national championships. In 2012, the program was valued at $805 million. In 2008, ESPN ranked Texas as the seventh-most prestigious college football program since 1936, as of the end of the 2016 season, Texas all-time record is 891–359–33, which ranks as the second-most wins in NCAA Division I FBS history. Other NCAA records include 108 winning seasons out of 122 total seasons,23 seasons with 10 or more wins,9 undefeated seasons, and 26 seasons with at most one loss or tie. From 1936 to 2012, the Longhorns football teams have been in the AP or coaches rankings 66 out of 76 seasons, finishing those seasons ranked in the top twenty-five 48 times, Texas claims four Division I-A national championships and 32 conference championships. Seventeen Longhorns have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, the Longhorns have played their home games in Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Joe Jamail Field since 1924. The stadium is located on the campus of The University of Texas in Austin, the current DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium and Big 12 attendance record was set on September 4,2016 with 102,315 spectators. The final planned phase of the expansion includes the construction of permanent seating. However, the date of the construction phase to fully enclose the south end zone has not been set nor have any funds been raised. Before the Longhorns football team moved to DKR, they played their games at Clark Field from 1894 to 1924. Clark Field was a stadium located on the University of Texas campus. The Longhorns last game at Clark Field before moving to brand new Memorial Stadium occurred on October 25,1924, the Longhorns battled the Florida Gators to a 7–7 tie that day. The 1893 team did not always wear orange and they also wore gold and white uniforms. In 1895, the Texas Athletic Association moved to orange and white colors, in 1897, the Association moved to orange and maroon to save cleaning costs. The Cactus Yearbook at the time listed the University colors as either gold or orange and white until the 1899 Cactus declared the University colors to be gold, students at the Universitys medical branch in Galveston were in favor of royal blue

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West End Park (Houston)
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West End Park was a baseball park in Houston from 1905 to the 1940s. It was the primary ballpark for the city when it was constructed, instead, West End Park was located in the freedmens town area of the Fourth Ward, with its entrance at Andrews and Heiner Streets. It was bounded by Andrews Street, Heiner Street, and Howe streets, today, the Interstate 45 Pierce Elevated passes over the area where the ballpark was, from Andrews Street to the Bagby Street exit. Construction of a new ballpark in Houston became necessary after the redevelopment of Herald Park into a residential neighborhood during the 1904 season, on January 9,1905, the Houston Buffaloes organization was given authorization by the Houston City Council for construction to begin on West End Park. During construction, a sandy soil was used for the field, by March 15, the ball parks construction was nearly completed only lacking paint on the grandstand and field preparation. West End Park opened on April 1,1905 as a park with an exhibition game between Houston and the Baton Rouge Cajuns of the Cotton States League. The suggested name chosen would allow its submitter to receive a ticket to the new park. Ultimately, John T. Schulte of 1018 LaBranch Street was chosen as the winner through a committee vote on April 16,1905. Other names considered included San Jacinto Park, Dick Dowling Park, San Felipe Park, Washington Park, other materials used for renovations, such as fences and more bleachers were purchased from nearby Marmion Park. On December 5,1911, the grandstand of West End Park was destroyed by a fire, the losses were estimated to exceed $5,000. The grandstand roof was blown off several years later when a storm hit Houston on November 25,1915. On January 5,1927, Sam Breadon, then owner of the team, on January 18, it was announced that the location had been purchased in the East End. Houstons new ballpark, Buffalo Stadium was then constructed for the 1928 season, on August 1,1928, the Houston Board of Education officially purchased the park from the Houston Baseball Association for $100,000 for use as school athletic fields. The park continued under the name and continued to be used for secondary school, amateur and collegiate athletics. With football being the event for Houston public schools, West End Park was eventually replaced when Public School Stadium opened in 1942. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, most of the occupied by the ballpark was used for various purposes when Heiner Street was extended. The Sells Floto Circus used the West End Park grounds for their show when they came to Houston in September 1907, West End Park was often used as a site for American football games. In 1908, the ballpark was the host of what was dubbed the state championship in school football with a game between Houston High School and San Antonio High School

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Houston
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Houston is the most populous city in the state of Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 2.239 million within an area of 667 square miles, it also is the largest city in the southern United States and the seat of Harris County. Located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico, it is the city of Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land. Houston was founded on August 28,1836, near the banks of Buffalo Bayou and incorporated as a city on June 5,1837. The city was named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and had commanded, the burgeoning port and railroad industry, combined with oil discovery in 1901, has induced continual surges in the citys population. Houstons economy has an industrial base in energy, manufacturing, aeronautics. Leading in health care sectors and building equipment, Houston has more Fortune 500 headquarters within its city limits than any city except for New York City. The Port of Houston ranks first in the United States in international waterborne tonnage handled, the city has a population from various ethnic and religious backgrounds and a large and growing international community. Houston is the most diverse city in Texas and has described as the most diverse in the United States. It is home to cultural institutions and exhibits, which attract more than 7 million visitors a year to the Museum District. Houston has a visual and performing arts scene in the Theater District. In August 1836, two real estate entrepreneurs from New York, Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen, purchased 6,642 acres of land along Buffalo Bayou with the intent of founding a city. The Allen brothers decided to name the city after Sam Houston, the general at the Battle of San Jacinto. The great majority of slaves in Texas came with their owners from the slave states. Sizable numbers, however, came through the slave trade. New Orleans was the center of trade in the Deep South. Thousands of enslaved African Americans lived near the city before the Civil War, many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations, while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs. Houston was granted incorporation on June 5,1837, with James S. Holman becoming its first mayor, in the same year, Houston became the county seat of Harrisburg County and the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas

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Baylor Bears football
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The Baylor Bears football team represents Baylor University in Division I FBS college football. They are a member of the Big 12 Conference, after 64 seasons at the off-campus Floyd Casey Stadium, the Bears opened the new on-campus McLane Stadium for the 2014 season. Initially, starting in the year 1898, the university played its games on an undetermined field near the university campus. Beginning in 1905, the home games were played at Carroll Field. Baylor did not adopt a mascot until December 14,1914, additionally, Baylor did not join an athletic conference until 1914 after the conclusion of the football season, when it became a founding member of the Southwest Conference. Baylor played its first home game against Tobys Business College in 1899, its first away game on 4 November 1900, at Austin College, and its first neutral-site game against Texas A&M in 1901. Texas Christian University was located in Waco from 1895 to 1910 and was one of Baylors greatest football rivals until the dissolution of the Southwest Conference in 1995, the 1901 season also welcomed Baylors first Thanksgiving Day football game, with a 28–0 win over St. Edwards University. J. C. Ewing took control of the team in 1902, watts restored Baylors winning tradition in 1903, with a record of 4–3–1. No team was fielded in 1906 following a ban opposing the violence of football, luther Burleson headed the restored football team in 1907, and managed a 4–3–1 record. To this day, Baylor claims the honor of having the largest homecoming parade in the world, in 1966, John Hill Westbrook of Elgin, Texas became the first African American to play varsity football in the Southwest Conference when he joined the Baylor team. Baylor won the SWC Championship in 1915,1916,1922, in 1956 Baylor came close to the SWC title again but finished second and was sent to face the undefeated #2 Tennessee Volunteers in the 1957 Sugar Bowl. Baylor defeated Johnny Majors and the #2 Volunteers 13-7 and this was the highest ranked opponent Baylor had ever defeated until defeating #1 ranked Kansas State in 2012. The 1924 SWC Championship would be the last for decades until Baylor won the conference again in 1974 under the leadership of third year head coach Grant Teaff. From the late 1940s until the mid-1960s, Baylor also played in the 1952 Orange Bowl, twice in the Gator Bowl, Baylor had finished in last place in 4 of the last 7 seasons including the year before and had not won the conference championship in 50 years. Also, prior to season, they had never appeared in the Cotton Bowl. Furthermore, coming into the 1974 season Baylor had lost 16 consecutive games to the Texas Longhorns, the 1974 Texas vs Baylor game looked like another easy win for Texas as the Longhorns took quick control of the game and went into halftime leading 24-7. Baylor was energized starting the 2nd half however, sparked by a punt early in the 3rd quarter. The Bears rallied to a thrilling 34-24 victory over the Longhorns, Baylor went on to win the conference title that year and a first ever trip to the Cotton Bowl

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Kyle Field
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Kyle Field is the football stadium located on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. It has been the home to the Texas A&M Aggie football team in rudimentary form since 1904 and it is known as the Home of the 12th Man. Within the state of Texas, Kyle Field has the largest regular seating capacity, Kyle Fields largest game attendance was 110,631 people when Texas A&M lost to the Ole Miss Rebels with the score of 20–35 on October 11,2014. This was the largest football game attendance in the state of Texas, in the fall of 1904, Edwin Jackson Kyle, an 1899 graduate of Texas A&M and professor of horticulture, was named president of the General Athletics Association. Kyle wanted to secure and develop a field to promote the schools athletics. Texas A&M was unwilling to provide funds, so Kyle fenced off a section of the southwest corner of campus that had been assigned to him for agricultural use. Using $650 of his own money, he purchased a grandstand from the Bryan fairgrounds. On November 10,1904, the Texas A&M Board of Directors set this area as a permanent athletic field, after the stands were built, students supported naming the field after its founder and builder. In 1921, the November game between the Texas A&M Aggies and their archrival the University of Texas at Kyle Field became the first college game to offer a live. The Aggies enjoyed a season in 1919, accumulating a combined score of 275–0. Aggie supporters began to clamor for a stadium, but only $2,400 were raised by 1920, in 1927, the school chose to build a new stadium, at a cost of $345,001.67. The new stadium opened later that year, in 1929, grandstands were added on the north and west ends, turning the facility into a 33, 000-seat horseshoe. Capacity was raised to 41,500 in 1953 when a second deck. More of second deck and other improvements were added in 1967 to raise the capacity to 48,000 at a cost of $1,840,000, in 1974, two large flagpoles were added at the south end of the stadium in memory of Lt. William B. Blocker, Texas A&M class of 1945, expansion continued in 1980, when a third deck was added to Kyle Field, bringing the capacity to 70,000. Construction took place during the season, and students were allowed into the area as each row of seating was added. In 1981, 16-foot -high letters spelling out KYLE FIELD were installed, the Bernard C. Richardson Zone was added in 1999 at a cost of $32.9 million raising the capacity to 82,600. For high-demand games, temporary bleachers are installed in the end zone

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Battle of the Brazos
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The Battle of the Brazos was the official collegiate sports rivalry between the Baylor Bears and Texas A&M Aggies. The rivalry is named for the Brazos River that flows by the two schools, which are only 90 miles apart, the Battle of the Brazos debuted in 1899. In the early days of the rivalry, Baylor and Texas A&M played each other multiple times in a single year, the two teams were also geographically close with only a one-hour train ride separating the two colleges. The 1926 football game coincided with Baylors homecoming, during halftime Baylor Homecoming floats paraded around the field. The motion caused Louise Normand to fall off the truck, injuring her, students began using metal folding chairs and planks of wood that had been used as yard markers for weapons. Texas A&M student Lt. Charles Sessums was hit in the head during the melee and, although he appeared to recover. On December 8,1926, the two school presidents agreed to temporarily suspend athletic relations between the schools, the schools would not compete against each other in any athletic event for the next four years. Baylor and Texas A&M would not meet in football again until 1931, in 1936 Baylor students awoke to find Texas A&M signs plastered across campus, with red paint applied to turn the Baylor flagpole into a barber pole. A huge sign on Waco Hall predicted, A and M50 and it was once great sport before a big football matchup for Aggie students to drive to Waco with nefarious intentions of capturing Baylors bear mascot. Baylor students sometimes resorted to defensive measures. In 1946 they placed mascot Chita in the custody of Waco Police so the Aggies could not find her, in the 1950s, two Aggie students drove to Waco and stole the Baylor mascot, a young bear cub, from the Baylor campus. While they were driving back to College Station in a car belonging to one of their families. Twenty–miles from Waco, the bear ripped out the inside of the car, the young men were caught when they took the car to be repaired. In 1954, Baylor mascot Nip and her trailer disappeared, yet, the next day both the bear and trailer were found under a bridge on the highway to College Station. Baylor students likewise pranked the Aggies, often sneaking onto the Texas A&M campus to spray paint on the statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross. Ross was the president of Texas A&M, who graduated from Baylors two year college preparatory program. Former U. S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, was expelled from Baylor after he was in part found painting one of A&Ms buildings green. The competitive peak of the series between Baylor and Texas A&M most likely occurred between 1960 and 1990 during which time Baylor won 13 games, A&M won 16 games, and two games ended in ties

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Reveille (dog)
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Reveille is the official mascot of Texas A&M University. Students adopted the first Reveille, a dog, in 1931. The cadets raised $100 during World War II to make Reveille a general, Reveille is the highest-ranking member of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets. Eight years after the first Reveille died, a graduate of the university donated a Shetland Sheepdog to be the second official Aggie mascot, the third Reveille was the first to be a purebred Rough Collie, all subsequent mascots have belonged to this breed. Reveille IV, V, VI, and VII died in 1989,1999,2003, Reveille VIII served from August 2008 until her retirement in 2015. The current mascot, Reveille IX, assumed her role as mascot on May 9,2015 during the Corps of Cadets Final Review, all Reveilles to date have been female. When they die, the Reveilles are buried in a cemetery located outside the north end of Kyle Field. The bodies are laid facing the end zone and the scoreboard. Reveille I In January 1931, several members of the Fightin Texas Aggie Band were returning from a party in nearby Navasota, Texas when they hit a small black. They brought the dog with them, and smuggled her into Legett Hall, the next morning, her presence was made apparent when Reveille was blown by a bugler and the dog began barking, hence Reveille became her name. Although it was against the rules to keep pets in the dorms, during the opening of football season, Reveille was named official mascot when she led the band onto Kyle Field for a half-time performance. She would wear a jacket with A&M colors and pace the sidelines during games. Due to the quantity of officers and soldiers Texas A&M contributed to the US Armed Forces in World War II, since that time, Reveille has worn the rank of Cadet General. Since 5 diamonds are not manufactured, cadets align Cadet Lieutenant Colonel, Reveille II Reveille II was the second official Aggie mascot. Eight years after the first Reveille died, the student body attempted to raise money to purchase a new mascot, after they failed to raise enough, Arthur Weinert, a graduate of the Class of 1900, donated a Shetland Sheepdog to the students in 1952. Named Reveille II, the new mascot was cared for by the Fightin Texas Aggie Band from 1952-1954. During the summer of 1954, a student found Reveille II wandering loose around campus and he and a classmate cared for her and then took her home with them for the rest of the summer. During the fall semester, she lived with one of the students, Sam Netterville, the university at the time refused to pay for the mascots care

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Aggie War Hymn
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The Aggie War Hymn is the war hymn of Texas A&M University, officially, the school does not have a fight song. It was written by J. V. Pinky Wilson, one of many Aggies who fought in World War I. Wilson combined several Aggie yells then in use at the time into a song called Good-bye to Texas University. He wrote the lyrics in 1918 on the back of a letter from home while holed up in a trench during a battle in France and he later put the words to music after Armistice was signed and before he returned to the United States. Upon returning to Texas A&M in 1919, the song was performed by a quartet that Wilson had organized, called the Cast-Iron Quartet. Wilson agreed, and the song was performed by the quartet during a yell practice, No midnight yell was occurring at this point in time. It was held outside Sbisa Hall after the evening meal and it became such a success that the song was officially adopted that fall under its current title. The song is noted for beginning with Recall, an old bugle call, in two different keys. These are the keys of the bugles in use by the US Army during World War I, the M1894 Field Trumpet in B-flat and the M1896 Field Trumpet in G and this is a nod to Texas A&Ms past as a military school. Indeed, for years, the Fightin Texas Aggie Bands halftime show has begun with the drum major shouting Recall. The starting phrase of the song, Hullabaloo, Caneck, Caneck. was widely thought to originate from an Old Army Aggie yell written in 1907, though other uses of the phrase have been recorded as early as 1889 at Johns Hopkins University. The Hullabaloo is also the Varsity Yell for the Tulane University Greenwave, Texas A&M University president Jack K. Williams jokingly defined the phrase as Chickasaw Indian for Beat the hell out of the University of Texas. The additional lyrics comprise what is now the first verse of the song, however, the first verse has never caught on, in part because many felt it sounded too much like an Ivy League song. Thus, in practice, the verse is usually sung twice. Also, in practice, the phrase sounds like hell is inserted after the line that is the song they sing so well, however, the phrase is not officially part of the song. After the second verse is sung twice, Aggie fans link their arms and legs, and sway left and right to replicate the motion of a saw blade, this is called sawing Varsitys horns off. When this happens during football games at Kyle Field, this causes the entire west upper deck, including the press box and this often unnerves sportswriters who havent covered an Aggie game before. The song concludes with the chorus of Therell Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, in 1997, the song was rated as the No.1 college fight song by USA Today. It was also used by NASA Flight Director Gerry Griffin to wake up astronauts in space from 1983 to 1995, the song was also used as a wakeup call on Day 11 of space mission STS-121 for Texas A&M former student and mission specialist Mike Fossum

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Fightin' Texas Aggie Band
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The Fightin Texas Aggie Band is the official marching band of Texas A&M University. Composed of over 400 men and women from the schools Corps of Cadets, the bands complex straight-line marching maneuvers are performed exclusively to traditional marches. Since its inception in 1894, its members eat together, sleep in the same dormitories, the Aggie Band performs at all home football games, some away games, and university and Corps functions throughout the year. The Aggie Band owes its existence to Joseph Holick, in 1885, Holick and his brother Louis boarded an empty boxcar bound for Orange, Texas so that they could gain employment in a lumber mill. En route, the two stopped in Bryan, Texas, near the campus of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, ross requested Holick be stationed at the new military college to perform cobbler duties. Holick accepted the proposal and moved to work at Texas A&M, shortly after his arrival, the Commandants staff discovered his musical talents. They requested him to play the bugle for Corps functions and for US$65 a month, he was assigned to play Reveille and Taps. Because the new job paid more than his previous one. The commandant agreed and named Holick its first bandmaster, under his tutelage and the leadership of subsequent bandmasters, the band grew from 13 members at its inception in 1894 to 75 bandsmen in 1924. Early drum majors are credited with inspiring the bands name, the first student drum major, H. A. California Morse, was asked to leave the college due to fighting and this tradition of aggressiveness and physical combat was noted by band members, who then took to calling themselves the Fightin Texas Aggie Band. In 1924, Lieutenant Colonel Richard J. Dunn was appointed as bandmaster, as a former member of John Philip Sousas Marine Band and with 26 years of military band leadership experience, Dunn quickly instituted changes within the band. The first was to the position of bugler, whose duties had fallen to the bandmaster since 1894, when informed that he was expected to fill the role, Dunn told college officials, I have blown enough bugles. Someone else can blow the bugle calls, from then on, the Corps Bugler was chosen from the ranks of the Aggie Band. Dunn also instituted uniform changes which added white canvas to the band uniform, Dunn tried, to no avail, to rid the band of the Senior Boots, but this tradition was too well-established. Other additions included crossed white belts, later discarded in favor of a white Sam Browne belt, silver buckles, changes in the drills included the Block T, the bands signature, and such intricate designs which led to talk amongst fans about the band always winning halftime. Under Dunns experience, the band instituted some traditions that the university uses to the present, in 1925, Marvin H. Mimms wrote the lyrics for an alma mater for the school. Dunn, who found the Aggie War Hymn inappropriate for social functions and solemn occasions, wrote its accompanying music and presented it to the student body titled Spirit of Aggieland

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12th man (football)
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The 12th man or 12th player is a term for fans of teams in eleven-a-side sports games, particularly American football or association football. Infrequently, the term has referred to individuals having a connection to their football team. In Canadian football,12 players are usually on the field at one time, similarly, in Australian rules football,18 players are on the field and the fans are often referred to as the 19th man. The term has a different meaning in cricket, referring instead to the first substitute player who fields when a member of the side is injured. The presence of fans can have a impact on how the teams perform. Namely, the team fans would like to see their team win the game. Noises are made by shouting, whistling, stomping and various other techniques, sometimes, the sideline is also referred to as the 12th man or 12th defender. Since a player is considered down when he out of bounds. This usage is less common than the one referring to the fans, the term can also be construed as implying that the referee is not impartial. Later, in the November 1912 edition of The Iowa Alumnus, McGowan described the 1903 game between Iowa and the University of Illinois. In his article, titled The Twelfth Player McGowan wrote, The eleven men had done their best, an early reference to the numerical 12th Man term occurred at the 1922 Dixie Classic, featuring Centre College and The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. During the game, A&M coach Dana X, bible realized that one more injury would leave him without another backfield player to send into the game. Bible sent for Gill and asked for him to suit up, Gill later said, I wish I could say that I went in and ran for the winning touchdown, but I did not. I simply stood by in case my team needed me, although he did not actually play in the game, his readiness to play was noted. Other individuals have occasionally been labeled by media as the Twelfth Man of their team. As it turned out it was not Mesko but George Larsen of Cranford and it was he who, midway through the fourth period that tingling afternoon, left the other 55,999 spectators in their seats to assist the Dartmouth Indians in a determined goal-line stand. It was he who lined up with the Hanoverians on the two yard stripe and prevented Jack White from scoring - and White boasted interference from the likes of Johnny Weller and Homer Spofford. It was the twelfth man who, though escorted unceremoniously off the field and out of the stadium without further ado

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Aggie Bonfire
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Aggie Bonfire was a long-standing annual tradition at Texas A&M University as part of the college rivalry with the University of Texas at Austin. For 90 years, Texas A&M students—known as Aggies—built and burned a bonfire on campus each autumn, known to the Aggie community simply as Bonfire, the annual autumn event symbolized Aggie students burning desire to beat the hell outta t. u. A derogatory nickname for the University of Texas, the bonfire was traditionally lit around Thanksgiving in conjunction with festivities surrounding the annual college football game. Although early bonfires were little more than piles of trash, as time passed the annual event became more organized, over the years the bonfire grew to an immense size, setting the world record in 1969. In 1999, the Bonfire collapsed during construction, killing people, eleven students and one former student. The accident led Texas A&M to declare a hiatus on an official Bonfire, however, since 2002, a student-sponsored coalition has constructed an annual unsanctioned, off-campus Student Bonfire in the spirit of its predecessor. The students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, known as Aggies, the first on-campus Aggie Bonfire, a heap of trash and debris, was burned in 1909 to generate enthusiasm for a variety of sporting events. A decade later, the focus of the event narrowed to the rivalry game between Texas A&M and the University of Texas, held near Thanksgiving Day. Little information was recorded about the early Bonfires, the 1921 Texas A&M yearbook mentioned the final rally of the students before the game against Texas, six years later, the school yearbook published a photograph of the event. Freshmen were expected to build the early Bonfires to help prove their worth, for almost two decades, the students constructed Bonfire from debris and wood acquired through various, sometimes illicit, means, including appropriating lumber intended for a dormitory in 1912. In 1935, a reported that students carried off his entire barn as fuel for Bonfire. To prevent future incidents, the university made Bonfire a school-sanctioned event, the following year, for the first time, the school provided axes, saws, and trucks for the students and pointed them toward a grove of dead trees on the edge of town. During the 1940s, the paper described Bonfire as the greatest event of the football season. u. The Bonfire design changed in 1942, universal Studios, filming the movie Weve Never Been Licked on the Texas A&M Campus, built a bonfire as a prop for the movie. Their structure used a similar to a teepee, where all the logs rested against each other in a conical shape. The logs were placed at an angle between 23 and 30 degrees, giving it a vertical and horizontal resistance. This allowed Bonfire to grow from 25 feet tall to over 50 feet tall, subsequent Aggies adopted the new idea, and the teepee design became standard for Bonfires for the next twenty-five years. Beginning in 1952, the bonfires were constructed entirely from fresh-cut logs, the event suffered its first fatality in 1955, when a student was struck by a swerving car

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Texas A&M Aggies football statistical leaders
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Within those areas, the lists identify single-game, Single season and career leaders. The Aggies represent Texas A&M University in the NCAAs Southeastern Conference, although Texas A&M began competing in intercollegiate football in 1894, the schools official record book considers the modern era to have begun in 1950. Records from before this year are incomplete and inconsistent. These lists are dominated by more recent players for several reasons, Since 1950, seasons have increased from 10 games to 11, the NCAA didnt allow freshmen to play varsity football until 1972, allowing players to have four-year careers. Bowl games only began counting toward single-season and career statistics in 2002, the Aggies have played in 11 bowl games since then. The Aggies have topped 6,00012 times in school history and these lists are updated through the end game of the 2016 season. Total offense is the sum of passing and rushing statistics and it does not include receiving or returns